- They worked hard to implement the national civil rights acts in the areas of housing, employment, voting, schools, transportation, and recreation.
- The NAACP has worked actively toward winning civil rights for minorities since its formation in New York City in 1909.
- Its membership and activities grew tremendously after World War I, when many African Americans migrated from the South to Northern cities.
- The NAACP has been the most prominent organization in defining U.S. civil rights objectives and agendas.
- The NAACP was a major part of the effort to abolish the grandfather clause (a test that allowed citizens to avoid poll taxes if they could show that their grandfather voted).
- Also played a major role in Brown vs. Board of Education which deemed school segregation unconstitutional (picture below).
NAACP lawyers win Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- In recent decades, the NAACP has broadened its scope by committing itself to the struggle for equal rights in the rest of the world. In the United States, as the Republican Party has worked in Congress to limit the power of an activist government, the NAACP has become more significant as a local-level watchdog of civil rights.
Citations
"NAACP truck with union message." Image. Library of Congress. American History.ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.
"NAACP lawyers win Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
"National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." American History.ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Founded in Februrary 12, 1909
- Group was created in order to proclaim change in the way African Americans were treated socially and leagally in the United States.
- A convention that took place were disscussed "the Condition of the Negro in America"
- The Niagara movement was set up to adress this in upstate New York in 1905.
- The convention ended up creating a group called National Negro Commitee (NCC)
- The NCC and the delegates from the Niagara movement came together and formed the National Assocaition for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- They worked hard to implement the national civil rights acts in the areas of housing, employment, voting, schools, transportation, and recreation.
- The NAACP has worked actively toward winning civil rights for minorities since its formation in New York City in 1909.
- Its membership and activities grew tremendously after World War I, when many African Americans migrated from the South to Northern cities.
- The NAACP has been the most prominent organization in defining U.S. civil rights objectives and agendas.
- The NAACP was a major part of the effort to abolish the grandfather clause (a test that allowed citizens to avoid poll taxes if they could show that their grandfather voted).
- Also played a major role in Brown vs. Board of Education which deemed school segregation unconstitutional (picture below).
- In recent decades, the NAACP has broadened its scope by committing itself to the struggle for equal rights in the rest of the world. In the United States, as the Republican Party has worked in Congress to limit the power of an activist government, the NAACP has become more significant as a local-level watchdog of civil rights.
Citations
"NAACP truck with union message." Image. Library of Congress. American History.ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 28 Mar. 2012."NAACP lawyers win Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
"National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." American History.ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 28 Mar. 2012.